TD Mapping Help Options

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

Hi

After some people finally found interest in good old TD mapping here some very old txt files i found on my HDD.
These are not from me, but explain quite well how to make a map with triggers and stuff.
The textfiles:  TD_tuts.zip ( 9.8K ) Number of downloads: 492
(take a look on the date of the files )

make AI rebuild destroyed Buildings:
the Baseit tool allows the AI to rebuild destroyed Buildings:  BASEIT.zip ( 10.49K ) Number of downloads: 445

Use this on your map with already all enemy Buildings included in your map and it generates automatically the [Base] section in your maps ini file.
You can then still remove some of the buildings you dont want the ai to rebuild.
Hint: remove all enemy buildings (except conyard) from your [STRUCTURES] list to have an enemy that is forced to build up his base too. (like the player)

And finally my missions here on the 9. post

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: Apr 24 2007, 06:50 PM

[Tore]

I need some help on making the AI attack I can make them produce but not attack.

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

As far as i remember the AI builds all the units, that are listet in the Teams of the TeamTypes section.
Those are the Teams that attack in a group.

[Triggers]
This trigger tells the game to try to create a group of one of the TeamTypes and send it on its mission. the mission is defined in the [TeamTypes] section.
aut2=Time,Autocreate,10,Multi2,None,1
This is done every 10 timesteps and the 1 at the end tells that it loops.
Afaik the AI builds the units in a random way, so sometime this triggers finds the units to build one of the teams and sometimes not.

e.g.
Team 1 has 2 Minigunners
Team 2 has 10 Minigunners and 2 Tanks
Due to the fact that Team 1 can be created much more easy, it takes Team 2 the Minigunners. This could cause the game to never send Team 2 and leave many Tanks back in the Base unused.

so my tip would be, don't have equal units in different TeamTypes.

[TeamTypes]
The mission is defined in the TeamTypes: like go to waypoint 1, go then to waypoint 2, finally attack units or buildings.
mula=Multi6,1,0,0,1,0,15,1,0,0,1,LTNK:2,3,Move:1,Attack Base:99,Loop:99,0,0
This TeamType makes the AI create 2 Lighttanks and send them to Waypoint 1 (Move:1) and then Attack the enemys Base (Attack Base:99), and this should be repeated (Loop:99)
The number 3 between LTNK:2 and Move:1 tells the game the number of commands that will follow. here Move, Attack Base and Loop
The meaning of the many numbers between Multi6 and LTNK:2 is unkown to me. i just copy them.

However, it often happens that many units stay in the base and never do anything.

With this trigger you give the AI the command to attack with everything it has.
hunt=Time,All to Hunt,150,Multi6,None,1
Every 150 timesteps it starts this massive attack with all units. The number 1 at the end tells the game to loop this command. 0 would mean to run this trigger only one time.

This way an enemy can become, in a very easy way, very hard.
Just make many TeamTypes and this trigger. Et voilà, heavy war.

example:
[Triggers]
airs=destroyed,Airstrike,0,GoodGuy,aira,0
[TeamTypes]
aira=GoodGuy,1,0,0,0,0,7,0,0,0,1,A10:10,0,0,0
this gives the Player the airstrike special weapon with 10 Bomber after destroying somthing like
102=BadGuy,TMPL,256,905,0,AIRS


All these examples are from me, so to make sure that a trigger works, i recommend to copy them of the original Westwood missions.

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: Apr 27 2007, 07:53 PM

[Warlord]

LKO could you just give me the codes for the AI instead of me trying to get baseit to work, because that way i could do an old copy paste into my map.

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

sure, upload your latest version here and i run baseit over it.
then you can copy the [Base] section out of the ini i'll post here.
But be sure that you don't change any building after you've inserted the Base section.